For the Japanese occupation forces stationed in Jinyang, intelligence gathering within the base areas was practically an impossible task. Now they were being asked to divert personnel to investigate all kinds of data from the occupied areas of Northwest Africa—this was truly putting the Japanese special agency in Jinyang in a difficult position.
But the Head of Jinyang Special Agency could not refuse. He could only take on this burden.
As for additional funding support and personnel transfers, Umezu Yoshijiro clearly could not give him a satisfactory answer either.
The Japanese were already extremely short on funds. They were not like the European and American great powers, with deep coffers. Military expenditures alone were enough to leave the Japanese Government gasping for breath.
July 11, 1938.
Alaska Autonomous Territory, Anchorage City.
It was already summer in Anchorage City, yet the high-latitude city remained quite cool. This was also the period when Anchorage was at its liveliest.
After all, for a high-latitude city like Anchorage, the long, bitterly cold winters inevitably compressed the time available for many local activities, such as urban construction and agricultural planting.
In the central square of Anchorage City, the recruitment office established locally by the East African Ministry of Defense had also chosen this fine, sunny day to begin its recruitment work.
The soldiers from the recruitment office handed out flyers to passersby in the square.
"Sir, are you interested in developing a career in the military? This is the latest recruitment policy, with generous pay and benefits."
Treide, a soldier from the recruitment office, was handing a flyer to Wang Ze, an Anchorage resident in his twenties.
Holding the flyer, Wang Ze had no plans to enlist, but he still asked, "Is the information on this flyer accurate? A monthly salary of two hundred